Good Day All!
I have a ton of workout videos that my family has collected throughout the years and ripped them to my PLEX HHD so they could be accessed from any TV in the house.
The problem is that no matter what type of folder I create i.e. TV Shows, Movies or Home movies, the are poorly organized. As you can see from the attached, all the videos are run together and not in their own folder like TV series.
Does anyone know a way to work this so the are better organized?
Name them in the way you want them, then rescan, empty trash
Home movies are by alphabet, AFAIK
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The best results have been to create a ‘Home Videos’ section. Within the directory the home videos section points to, create sub directories named as You want them to appear. Then place your videos in the appropriate sub-directories.
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Use home movies, and organize "By Folder" as view and I think you will have an easier time viewing it. That is how I use behind the scenes material until the Plex devs have developed support for that :)
I have a workout sections also. It is formatted Drive Letter: > Workout > Series name > Chapter/Episode/
I added them as TV shows so it would categorize multiple videos under one group/season. The files are named as such: "P90X - 01 - Chest And Back.mkv"
You will have to manually edit to add correct cover and summary etc.
They end up like this
I too added them as a tv show. Organized like this FocusT25/Season */S0*e0*. If I remember correctly I had to add this to the tvdb. But I cant remember for sure.
Does any one know how you can Get Plex to load in the show name from the file?
Eg, if I have the following file name:
Plex will currently load the show name as the folder being “Training Series 123” but it will not name each series as per the file names which I would like it to, Eg, episode 1 would be “Day 1 - Out and about”
“Training Series 123 - S01E01 - Day 1 - Out and about”
@Jon_C said:
Does any one know how you can Get Plex to load in the show name from the file?
This is not possible. If you set it up like a TV show, Plex will not use the filename. Filenames are only used with Home Videos.
@danjames92 said:
“Training Series 123 - S01E01 - Day 1 - Out and about”
U can manually edit the display name, click the edit icon on the individual episodes
Like the above I have a number of training video’s for work as well as personal topics and I’ve read that treating them like TV shows is best as I use to use movies (which was a disaster) then switched to Home video’s which is also a disaster to follow any thing… so have since switched to TV show mode after reading the forms… I’ve gone through and manually re-named all my videos and got them loaded but they are in a rather useless format of episode 1, episode 2…etc…
I understand I can manually go in and edit each show but I have over 1100 files to manually name which is just simply not practical in any sense and if I ever have a DB issue having to re-do it again is just not a workable solution it should be automated and there must be a way around this as it seems to be a very common request in the forums and many users have work around or suggestions on manual edits…etc. just does not seem right… I also found a script to create NFO files but Plex does not seem to read them either or I did something wrong perhaps…
Any way I was hoping someone has away that we can manually set or install an agent that will simply name a TV show using the file name as you said it’s already possible with home videos so it must exist and be possible to port over to TV shows with a slightly edited agent I’m guessing?
I’ve found the following custom scanners which do seem to allow you to use the episode name in the file name as the episodes name however I’ve run into a few other issues with it which I’ve posted a topic inside the forum… If any one else is interested these are the two custom addons you can install to get things working…
Unfortuantely it did not work out for my structure as the plugin above does not work very well for my content as it has a fair bit of sub folders which mess things up a bit… The default Plex Agent is much better for my content but does not allow Episode name from the file name which I’m hoping we can help get added some time? Any one know how this request can be considered and looked into? (eg, were is the best place to post/request this?)
To me it seems logical IF there is no meta data or online data possible for the content you are scanning to then allow the episode title to be loaded from the file being added…
I found the Plex .Py file that do the agent scanning to see if I could edit/change it in any way to allow this but I have no idea how to do this or essentially copy the default engine and save it as a new agent name for these kind of training videos so I don’t mess around with the default Plex agents that work 100% fine for general TV shows…etc…
I’e set mine up like others to be TV Show related, however I did manually add the metadata and sorted out the folder structure manually but it was worth the effort:
Hi Liquidtoon, did you ever find any way for Plex to load the episode title from the file names? I’ve got over 1100 files and doing this manually is something I would like to avoid… I also have a bit more content from work arriving soon which might push this up over 1500 and doing it manually is not going to be much fun… It ‘looks’ like someone that knows how to write .py scripts should beable to do this change but I have no idea myself…
If any one might have the knowledge and willing to help it would be much appreciated!
@Jon_C said:
Hi Liquidtoon, did you ever find any way for Plex to load the episode title from the file names? I’ve got over 1100 files and doing this manually is something I would like to avoid… I also have a bit more content from work arriving soon which might push this up over 1500 and doing it manually is not going to be much fun… It ‘looks’ like someone that knows how to write .py scripts should beable to do this change but I have no idea myself…If any one might have the knowledge and willing to help it would be much appreciated!
Unfortunately not Jon, I had to do it manually. I didn’t have as many as you have though! I remember some talk a while back about a new DB for Workouts similar to thetvdb.com but I’m not sure if it ever got off the ground?
Thanks for the update Liquidtoon, appreciated…
I will keep having a look around to see what I can find as most of my vids are training (eg, structured work video’s and other purchased material)… It would be great to get it index correctly especially to keep track of were i’m upto in each video series and mark the ones I’ve seen as watched…etc…
Any way hopefully I manage to find an easy solution soon or or someone from the Plex team might help with a fall back option for “personal” media that can be setup like TV shows or TV Shows with no metadata found to use the file information at hand for the show title…etc…
All the best!
@Jon_C said:
The default Plex Agent is much better for my content but does not allow Episode name from the file name
Actually, if your episode files are in mp4/m4v format, you can embed the episode title as a metatag into the file itself. Plex will read it from there.
Hi OttoKerner
Interesting, I will check it out when I get home to see what format most content is in and look into a way to automate the name to be injected from the filename if at all possible (I’m sure there must be some kind of app… I’ll check into it)… 
Cheers for your help!
Hay all, just to let you know @mjarends managed to help me out getting this working… You can view the thread and details at the following post if you are interested:
Essentially you need to mondify the Metadata Agent and Scanner by adding the following "regex below I am assuming that all of your training videos are in the same root library folder. In the regex below replace “Library Root” with the name of the folder where your videos are stored.
[\\/]Library Root[\\/](?P<showTitle>[^\\/]+)[\d\D\\/]*[sc](?P<seasonNumber>[0-9]+)[e](?P<episodeNumber>[0-9]+)[ ]*[-\.]{0,1}[ ]*(?P<episodeTitle>.*)\.(?P<ext>.+)
You can also change the scan prioroty by changing the following code:
# List of series parsers series_parsers = [SeriesDatedEpisodeMediaParser(), SeriesDateBasedMediaParser(), SeriesEpisodeMediaParser()]
